Eddie the hedgehog snuffling in the back yard 10pm last night, cambridge
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Wildlife highlight of the day
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The hedgehog in our garden appears to have either reproduced or shrunk.
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@frenchy, this was also the talk in the baking heat of the cambridge garden last night. Eddie or Son of Eddie
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The hedgehog in our garden appears to have either reproduced or shrunk.
Podenco snacks?
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Mass is a conserved quantity @Frenchy. Well, mass-energy. Do you think the hedgehog has relatives?
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I have not weighed the hedgehog, as I never seem to have my micrometre on hand when I see it, so perhaps its density has simply increased.
Special relatives or just general ones?
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Weasel (or possibly stoat, missed its tail) crossing the rather urban Milton Road East
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Leeches on the towpath this morning. Unpleasantly large, so not sure this is a 'highlight'.
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Upsides of working from home today (downside is I'm sitting in a mostly dark room with a fan heater set to just fan blowing on my legs & I'm still too hot, and it's not even the hottest bit of the day) - cabbage whites, bees, bullfinches, noisy goldfinches, rotund pigeons, a dunnock, and a coal tit in my wee garden in the last half hour. At work I have a high-up window and a view of a wall. This is better.
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A gobbet of flesh in the garden. A shifty looking fox going back and fore with stuff in its maw.
Death is come.
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Six spot burnet moth. Nice to see that fly.
A flock of painted ladies on the butterfly bush growing out of Liberton Kirk boundary wall.
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Yeah masses of painted ladies yesterday, hardly staying still enough to photograph!
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The butterfly migrates from the continent each summer to UK shores in varying numbers
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https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/features/painted-lady-migration/
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Juvenile bullfinches in the garden. Just the two, not sure if more have already headed off on their own.
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Bullfinches seem to have usurped greenfinches since the Brexit vote. Greenfinches got a horror disease that left their tiny heads denuded of feathers.
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I thought it was Trichomonosis aka Trichomonas gallinae that hit the greenfinch population hard?
Certainly we went from a healthy number of greenfinches in our garden to almost none. Although we did have one on the sunflower kernel feeder at the weekend.
I like the slightly 'hooded' look that greenfinches have around the eyes. They can also sing very prettily when they have a mind to - but they don't seem to get the urge very often, apparently preferring to sit on high perches uttering tuneless repetitive wheezes.
Male bullfinches look so damn cool in their full breeding season getup.
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Numbers of greenfinches are back up in our garden. I'd like to see some more siskins though.
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Loads of Painted Lady butterflies at the big hedge at the Bilston end of the A703.
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not exactly wildlife, but there are some fantastic giant puffballs on the NEPN.
i have resisted harvesting, but it appears small animals are enjoying them.
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Last night fox at balgreen tram, bat at West end, bunny at Bankhead industrial estate but better, wee brown lizard scuttered from my hand as I pulled out weed from garden steps this morn
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mr bullfinch brought his juve along today which was nice
also lots of painted ladies hitting that purple bush
greenfinch numbers back to sustainable levels
greedy bs
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Fox and hedgehog manifested during dinner on the back step. Hedgehog infrequently seen, very welcome.
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Opened the back door to check on the cheese rinds left for the fox and had a tsunami of juvenile tits wash right over me. Long-tailed, blue and coal, all in first plumage, too naive to be wary and festooning every perch.
Charming but also a harbinger of autumn.
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One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter (Thoreau)
Lot of wildlife outright at the festival, even though it was still preview time - it’s gonna be hoaching
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@gembo
Yes, this is the function of jam. It is molten summer.
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Brambles early this year
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Festooning *every* perch?
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Every perch, yes. Anything without an ensconced tit clearly wasn't a valid perch.
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Is yer nose a valid perch?
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Gracieux : “Aimez-vous à ce point les oiseaux
Que paternellement vous vous préoccupâtes
De tendre ce perchoir à leurs petites pattes ?”Posted 4 years ago #
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